god’s ultimate daylight savings miracle
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These slides went with a sermon given on 11/2/2014 at Plymouth Meeting E. C. Church. You can find the audio feed of the sermon and the sermon notes at www.pmecc.org, our church website.TRANSCRIPT
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God’s Ultimate Daylight Savings
Miracle
Joshua 10:12-27
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The Background (10:1-5)
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This is real HISTORY of Israel, not fiction.
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It was God’s plan to give CANAAN to the
Israelites.
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Israel won several major victories, and the
King of Jerusalem feared JOSHUA and the
Israelites. (10:1)
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The King of Jerusalem called on 4 Amorite kings to join him in
battle against ISRAEL forming a league of 5
nations. (10:3)
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The King of Gibeon TRICKED Joshua then
called on Joshua at Gilgal to keep his
covenant and help them. (10:4)
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The Battle (10:5-15)
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God promised Joshua a VICTORY, so he led his
army 25 miles to Gibeon at night and sprung a SURPRISE
attack on the Amorites outside Gibeon.
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God helped by sending large
HAILSTONES from heaven at the enemy.
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Joshua was instructed to destroy them all, but
there wasn’t enough TIME in the day. He
needed more DAYLIGHT hours.
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Joshua prayed, “SUN, stand still over
Gibeon!” (10:12) Many of these pagan enemy WORSHIPED the sun!
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The Outcome (10:16-27)
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God had POWER over the sun.
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The sun STOOD STILL until the enemy was
defeated. Time stood still for about a day. A
unique MIRACLE (10:14)
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What is important is not HOW God did it, but THAT God did it!
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The five kings hid in a CAVE. Joshua told his
men to roll huge STONES up against
the entrance
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The news of this battle spread, and other
cities in Canaan were afraid of the Israelites
and the POWER of their God.
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The Lessons
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God will accomplish His PURPOSES.
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The Amorites of Southern Canaan acted to HINDER or prevent God’s plan for the Israelites to conquer
Canaan.
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God acted to preserve his people to bring the
MESSIAH into the world in line with His
promises in Genesis 12:1-3.
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When we pray to God, it may not result in the
SUBTRACTION of our problems, but it will
definitely be the ADDITION of
power.
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God has the power to provide VICTORY.
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God created TIME. (Genesis 1:1-5)
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God will END time when Christ returns
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God has the power to STOP time
temporarily.
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God will DESTROY all the enemies of righteousness.
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God uses the AVAILABLE who have
big FAITH.
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We study these stories to encourage
our FAITH. (Romans 15:4)
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Do you have the faith to pray for MIRACLES?